Can good nutrition improve one’s memory?  I know my mother used to think so.  As my siblings and I prepared for exams in high school, my mother used to plant a large bowl of pistachios on the table as a study aid.  It improved our memory she said. Since I have been forgetting a lot [...]

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I have a couple of friends who think that cooking a meal is equivalent to undergoing torture.  Cooking, to them, is a journey into the unknown, so they stay away from anything that resembles preparing food. But if you go to their homes and see their kitchens, it’s as though you are seeing an entirely [...]

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I read in the newspaper the other day a new revelation, that when someone turns 50, their heart shrinks by 16%.  This is true no matter whether you’re male or female.  Medical science believes that this shrinkage lays the foundation for heart failure after you’ve left the magic age of 50. I have a different [...]

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